Example sentences of "[vb past] put [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 2 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |
| 3 | Through him he secured an introduction to John Dunbar , then the fiance of 16-year old Marianne Faithful , whose virginal looks and upper middle-class style had put her into the charts as a complement to the art student R&B bands . |
| 4 | The next second he had put her under the shower and turned on the cold tap . |
| 5 | She was still quietly fuming about Felipe 's remarks as dinner drew near , however , and he had put her in a very awkward position . |
| 6 | Fate had put her in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man . |
| 7 | So it must have been the Gharrgoyles who had put me on the planets surface to die . |
| 8 | The Board said that they deserved their percentage because they had put me in the position to attract the money . |
| 9 | More than that , the caring crème de la crème were also confronted by the result of what had put them at the forefront of that generation in the first place : they were very good at what they did ( teaching , lecturing , theorizing , media of all kinds , creativity of all stripes ) , and they were becoming , perish the thought , Successful . |
| 10 | He had put them in a place where the risk would be minimal and he had not pumped the gun the maximum number of times . |
| 11 | Someone had put them in a box and thrown them into the canal . |
| 12 | In addition , the Kee affair had put him on a collision course with his parents . |
| 13 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 14 | Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position . |
| 15 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 16 | I felt I ought to have gone in earlier ; that now I had put him in a huff . |
| 17 | It was fortunate indeed that we had put him in a cell with another person . |
| 18 | The angry look on the judge 's sallow face showed that either his attendance in court that morning or Cranston 's arrival had put him in an ill humour . |
| 19 | He had put him in the Cabinet because , with Bonar Law gone , he needed a man from the Law stable to preserve the balance . |
| 20 | The Party chairman had rung the area agent in Birmingham , who had put him in the picture . |
| 21 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 22 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 23 | When the envelope had arrived she had put it on the mantelpiece in the small sitting-room , but almost at once she had decided to take it more closely into her possession . |
| 24 | They said the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , had discussed the proposal with the Egyptian president , Hosni Mubarak , in Cairo on Wednesday and Egypt had put it to the United States . |
| 25 | She told herself that it must be kept carefully , to be left out for Mrs Kettering when their stay was over , so she had put it in a compartment of her handbag . |
| 26 | The plant , David , had died although Rachaela had put it in a window . |
| 27 | Somebody had put it in the drawer . |